List of wars involving Iceland

The following is a list of wars involving Iceland. Although modern Iceland does not maintain a standing army, navy, or air force, it maintains a militarized Coast Guard which is in charge of defending the country and has internationally deployed a small peacekeeping force on a few occasions.

None of the Cod Wars meets any of the common thresholds for a conventional war. They may more accurately be described as militarized interstate disputes.^[1][2][3][4]

Wars

Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result	Icelandic losses
Age of the Sturlungs (1220–1264)	Gothis	Gothis	Old Covenant Termination of the Icelandic Commonwealth.	Unknown
Icelandic Reformation (1538–1550)	Papacy Jón Arason and followers	Kingdom of Denmark Daði Guðmundsson and followers	Termination of the Catholic church in Iceland Introduction of Protestanism	Unknown
Cod Wars (1958–1976)	Iceland	United Kingdom  West Germany  Belgium	Victory[5][1][6] Iceland's fishery limits and territorial limits expanded.	1 dead

Peacekeeping

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops deployed
MNF-I	2003	2004	Iraq	2
ISAF	2003	2014	Afghanistan	?

See also

• Turkish Abductions
• Iceland in World War II (invasion)
• Military of Iceland
• Military history of Iceland

References

1. Steinsson, Sverrir (2016-03-22). "The Cod Wars: a re-analysis". European Security 0 (0): 1–20. doi:10.1080/09662839.2016.1160376. ISSN 0966-2839.
2. Hellmann, Gunther; Herborth, Benjamin (2008-07-01). "Fishing in the mild West: democratic peace and militarised interstate disputes in the transatlantic community". Review of International Studies 34 (03): 481–506. doi:10.1017/S0260210508008139. ISSN 1469-9044.
3. Ireland, Michael J.; Gartner, Scott Sigmund (2001-10-01). "Time to Fight: Government Type and Conflict Initiation in Parliamentary Systems". The Journal of Conflict Resolution 45 (5): 547–568.
4. Prins, Brandon C.; Sprecher, Christopher (1999-05-01). "Institutional Constraints, Political Opposition, And Interstate Dispute Escalation: Evidence from Parliamentary Systems, 1946–89". Journal of Peace Research 36 (3): 271–287. doi:10.1177/0022343399036003002. ISSN 0022-3433.
5. GuÐmundsson, GuÐmundur J. (2006-06-01). "The Cod and the Cold War". Scandinavian Journal of History 31 (2): 97–118. doi:10.1080/03468750600604184. ISSN 0346-8755.
6. Habeeb, William (1988). Power and Tactics in International Negotiations: How Weak Nations Bargain with Strong Nations. Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. Chapter 6.